Private carrier like Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines, GoAir and SpiceJet collectively cancelled 96 flights owing to a nationwide ?bandh? that led to ?no-show? by passengers at various airports including Mumbai. According to information available with airport authorities, Kingfisher cancelled at least 26 flights, Jet Airways 17, Jetlite 13, Indian Airlines 18, IndiGo nine, GoAir seven and Spicejet two. Says an official at the Mumbai airport,?In view of no-show by passengers, many private airlines also resorted to cancellations. Some of them also clubbed their flights when the shutdown started.? Kingfisher, for example, attempted to salvage the situation by combining several of its flights with other services. The other carriers also resorted to a similar strategy to accommodate stranded passengers. Officials at the airports said that a majority of the cancellations were from opposition-rules states. The Kolkata International Airport in the Left-ruled West Bengal remained completely closed, save a few flights that operated in the morning.